Even though Aquaman is traditionally a shiatty character, I was willing to blow the cash on the book, because you really can't go wrong with a Peter David book.

/Will Pfeiffer's Sub Diego run from the mid-2000s was pretty good, too.

//and Aquaman's 60s stories, reprinted in the one Aquaman Archives volume, were wonderfully stupid. There was one 6 page story about the time Aquaman built an underwater hospital for sea creatures. There were enough ideas in those 6 pages to give Brian Michael Bendis 18 issues and a major crossover event, with a page of nine panels of a static shot of a fish going "glub... er... uh... glub."

I don't like Aquaman, don't like tradition for tradition's sake, don't like comic book continanity and I don't like DC much and yet this article is so poorly composed that I found myself rooting for Aquaman. Sterling quality as ever always, Kotaku.

I find it interesting that Namor is perceived as being somewhat of a decent character while Aquaman is considered a Z-lister. Whats the diff? Is it nothing more than Namor has one additional ability, flight (while lacking the telepathic control shtick)?

Does Aquaman simply need to be better portrayed that he is as strong and as tough as he is when a small number of writers remember it?

the opposite of charity is justice:I find it interesting that Namor is perceived as being somewhat of a decent character while Aquaman is considered a Z-lister. Whats the diff? Is it nothing more than Namor has one additional ability, flight (while lacking the telepathic control shtick)?

Does Aquaman simply need to be better portrayed that he is as strong and as tough as he is when a small number of writers remember it?

It helps that Namor is a total asshole who clearly bangs Susan Storm every time Reed Richards isn't looking. Because let's face it, Reed Richards is useless. Namor's the amazing Bro-Mariner.

Bloody William:the opposite of charity is justice: I find it interesting that Namor is perceived as being somewhat of a decent character while Aquaman is considered a Z-lister. Whats the diff? Is it nothing more than Namor has one additional ability, flight (while lacking the telepathic control shtick)?

Does Aquaman simply need to be better portrayed that he is as strong and as tough as he is when a small number of writers remember it?

It helps that Namor is a total asshole who clearly bangs Susan Storm every time Reed Richards isn't looking. Because let's face it, Reed Richards is useless. Namor's the amazing Bro-Mariner.

Reed has a penis that can be as big as it needs to be. Why would Sue want someone who smells like tuna?

the opposite of charity is justice:I find it interesting that Namor is perceived as being somewhat of a decent character while Aquaman is considered a Z-lister. Whats the diff? Is it nothing more than Namor has one additional ability, flight (while lacking the telepathic control shtick)?

Does Aquaman simply need to be better portrayed that he is as strong and as tough as he is when a small number of writers remember it?

Hell, the guy is king of a super-advanced society that covers ~75% of the planet, can telepathically control any-and-everything living in the oceans (including the local Cthulhu knockoff), is super fast, durable and strong (semi-comparable to Superman, as I recall), and depending on the incarnation, has a badass trident hand.

But nope! Because of that idiotic Superfriends cartoon, Aquaman is "the guy who talks to fish" in the public consciousness. God, that era of cartoons sucked.

Hobodeluxe:Bloody William: the opposite of charity is justice: I find it interesting that Namor is perceived as being somewhat of a decent character while Aquaman is considered a Z-lister. Whats the diff? Is it nothing more than Namor has one additional ability, flight (while lacking the telepathic control shtick)?

Does Aquaman simply need to be better portrayed that he is as strong and as tough as he is when a small number of writers remember it?

It helps that Namor is a total asshole who clearly bangs Susan Storm every time Reed Richards isn't looking. Because let's face it, Reed Richards is useless. Namor's the amazing Bro-Mariner.

Reed has a penis that can be as big as it needs to be. Why would Sue want someone who smells like tuna?

Reed also has the sex drive of Stephen Hawking. Not exactly the most attentive husband.

Hobodeluxe:Reed has a penis that can be as big as it needs to be. Why would Sue want someone who smells like tuna?

Because Reed is in his lab all day and has nearly killed the FF with his inventions several times. If I were Sue I would divorce Reed and take up with Submariner. Reed is probably masturbating with a computer as I type this.

Geoff Johns' ego has grown to epic proportions. He's decided that since Rebirth went so well, he can make any DC character awesome again. Except he's choosing characters like Aquaman, Hawkman, crap like that. No one cares about those characters, for good reason. You can hip Aquaman up as much as you like, he still sucks ass.

Most of the aquaman stuff I see, and this isn't from comic books, has him as a badass, he is super strong and resilient because he lives so deep underwater that mere mortals would be crushed by the pressure, he speaks to and fights against sharks and in JLU he cuts off his own hand to save his son and shows up just in time to defeat the bad guy.

the opposite of charity is justice:I find it interesting that Namor is perceived as being somewhat of a decent character while Aquaman is considered a Z-lister. Whats the diff? Is it nothing more than Namor has one additional ability, flight (while lacking the telepathic control shtick)?

Does Aquaman simply need to be better portrayed that he is as strong and as tough as he is when a small number of writers remember it?

One, the "talking to fish" bit is kind of lame.

Two, Aquaman's strength and toughness is a recent invention. Namor's been a badass since he was created.

Three, Namor's a major-league asshole, but still a relatively good guy, which makes him a much more interesting character.

but then again, they have tried to make the character more badass in the modern era due to power inflation (which DC is notorious for and I hate, if your character blows deal with it) so i think he is ready for another round

FreetardoRivera:Also, Namor was always a badass and was always crazy strong.

That is the key difference.

Virtually all DC characters used to be significantly less powerful than they are right now but comic books are kind of bad about "how powerful is this character?" being wildly inconsistent from book to book anyway.